Romans 13: Rulers, Neighbors, and the Coming Day
Believers are subject to the governing authorities as God's servants and pay what they owe, they keep paying the one debt that never runs out, love, and they live awake and clothed in Christ, because their salvation is nearer than when they believed.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
Show how Romans 13:1-7 follows from Romans 12:17-21, and what Paul says government is for.
Explain what believers owe the governing authorities, and where to find the limits of that duty.
Explain how love fulfills the law without replacing God's commands, and what “Owe no man any thing” requires.
Read Romans 13:11-14 in light of Christ's coming for His church, and put on the Lord Jesus Christ in daily life.